Residency Programs at the Toronto School of Art

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Where: Toronto, Canada
When: throughout 2008
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2008

Toronto School of Art (TSA) is one of Canada's oldest alternative fine art school. Founded in 1969, TSA is committed to providing a positive environment for aspiring artists to acquire a visual arts education. Its faculty and programs reflect a balance between traditional skills and their relation to contemporary issues, ideas and practices.

The (ISP) Independent Studio Program consists of bi-weekly studio visits with a key advisor selected by the students from TSA's faculty of professional artists, and group meetings with other ISP participants and an ISP coordinator. Key advisors provide critical feedback, technical support and act as liaisons with the Toronto art community.

The (ISR) Independent Summer Residency includes individual critiques from three TSA faculty artists, an exhibition opportunity in the TSA gallery, an opportunity to work uninterrupted in a downtown studio and access to one course.

For more information www.tsa-art.ca
Information supplied by Res Artis.

Residency Opportunity in Kristiansand, Norway

Artist in residence – Kristiansand, Norway

The residence program of the city of Kristiansand is now open for applications. This is an offer to professional artists, preferably, fine artist and craft artists. The aim with the program is to strengthen, promote and develop collaboration and network between contemporary artists in Kristiansand and other national and foreign artists and to enrich the cultural stage of our town.

Residencies are for 3 months (+/-) in a rent-free accommodation and additional studio. The artist must cover all other expenses such as living costs, travel, materials, insurance and transport.

Applicants must use the enclosed application form on our homepage. The application should consist of a proposal/statement with purpose and aim for your stay, CV and letter(s) of reference. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The application period is from September 2008 – August 2009

For more information: www.kristiansand.kommune.no/gjesteleilighet
Information Source: Res Artis

Rijksakademie Research Residency

Artist in Residency Program: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deadline: Feb. 1st. 2008

The Rijksakademie Research Residency in Amsterdam is an international research and production place for talented, professional artists from all over the world. The Rijksakademie is more than a residency. It has extensive technical facilities, a library, artists’ documentation and art collections. In addition the Rijksakademie offers material basic facilities such as a studio, a work budget, mediation with accommodation and grants.

Resident artists pursue every medium and technique: painting, drawing, graphics, photography, sculpture, video, film, sound and digital media. Links with other areas are also explored such as architecture and public space, theatre, music, literature and diverse scientific disciplines.

More information: www.rijksakademie.nl
Information Source: Res Artis

International Mail Art Call

IL COLLAGE
Theme: The collage
No size limits; works will not be returned.
Exhibition in Milan (Italy) in Associazione Culturale Città Studi Milano and on line www.principearte.it

Deadline: 30/06/2008

Send to:
Daniele Principe
via F.Tajani, 16
20133 MILANO - ITALY

For more information www.principearte.it.org

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Announces Professorship

PROFESSORSHIP
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' Schools of Visual Arts announces an opening for a Professor of Painting, beginning October 1, 2008.

"The Schools of Visual Arts' new professor of painting is expected to build an innovative platform for research and teaching, which, by tracing lines in the art of painting throughout its history and up to the present, can contribute to the development of a current discourse on painting. The appointee must be a visual artist with a significant artistic production within painting. It is a condition of appointment that the applicant occupies him/herself with painting and painting-related problematics, is on a recognized high level within contemporary art and has a marked exhibition profile."

Application must be sent to: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, Kongens Nytorv 1, PO Box 9014, DK-1022 Copenhagen K, Denmark, no later than February 15, 2008.


For more information go to: http://www.kunstakademiet.dk

International Biennial of Small Graphics

CALL FOR ENTRIES: INTER-ART
Aiud/Romania
June 26 - 29, 2008 – www.inter-art.ro

The 2nd biennale of Small Graphics, organized by Inter-Art Foundation and the Liviu Rebreanu Cultural Center Aiud is now accepting applications for works addressing the meaning of 'intercontinental'. Application deadline is May 15, 2008.

For more information www.inter-art.ro